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A hand played on BBO about 3 days ago. Our partnership only reached 3NT <_<

I browsed thru the hand record. Found that only one pair reach 7x and it is just by means of a blast. ;) One pair reached 7NTxx and of course North can't find the killing lead of D. :)

 

Is there any way to reach 7 by any of your favorite method?

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A hand played on BBO about 3 days ago. Our partnership only reached 3NT <_<

I browsed thru the hand record. Found that only one pair reach 7x and it is just by means of a blast. ;) One pair reached 7NTxx and of course North can't find the killing lead of D. :)

 

Is there any way to reach 7 by any of your favorite method?

I would be impressed with any non-relay pair who could confidently find this one.

 

It is always very difficult when you have a void in partner's best suit.

 

Eric

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Dealer: West
Vul: E/W
Scoring: IMP
A6
AKJ
KQ98742
4
K7
QT75
[space]
AKQJT32
 

A hand played on BBO about 3 days ago. Our partnership only reached 3NT <_<

I browsed thru the hand record. Found that only one pair reach 7x and it is just by means of a blast. ;) One pair reached 7NTxx and of course North can't find the killing lead of D. :)

 

Is there any way to reach 7 by any of your favorite method?

Hi,

 

one possible auction maybe

 

1D - 3C (1)

3D - 4C (2)

4D (3) - 4S (4)

4NT (5) - 5S (6)

6C (7)

 

(1) Strong Jump Shift, Soloway

(2) Single Suited, Sets Trumps, Suit playable for 1 looser

opposite a void

(3) Cue Bid, Showing Slam Interest,

i.e. a controll rich opener

(4) 1st/2nd round controll

(5) RKCB

(6) 2 Keycards + Queen

(7) Sign off

 

Opener konws, that the Ace of Diamonds is

missing, and if he give responder a heart less

and a single diamond, or change the Queen

of heart to the Queen of Spade, you would not

want to there.

 

With kind regards

Marlowe

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I'd go with something like

 

1D 2C

3D 3H

3NT 4C

4NT 6NT?

 

4NT = misfit (not RKCB)

6NT = I would bid this, though I'm sure my regular pard would come up with some silly bid here that might drive us to 7C.. lol :)

Why 6NT and not 6? You may be able to establish the diamond suit with ruffs for heart discards. It's not like you expect partner with AK, and not like you expect trump losers...

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Awkward hand. With West dealer:

 

2 - 2N

3 - 4

4 - 6

6N - Pass

 

2 = 4-5 losers, 5+ controls

2N = 4 controls

 

After 6, responder is marked with a solid club suit, and the outside card must be the K, so 6N looks golden. I can't diagnose the dimond void here.

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sorry...retarded...if the auction starts with west then

 

1D 2C

2D 3C

3D 3H

3N 4C

4H 4S

5N 6C

 

3N a distinct underbid but it looks like a misfit at that point.

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With my f2f partner:

 

1 - 1

1NT - 2

2 - 4

4 - 4NT

5 - 5

5 - 6

7

 

West only bids relays (except 1 = 15+ any, and 4 end signal in case responder is minimum)

1 shows GF with 4+

2 shows exactly 4 and 5+

4 shows a 2-4-0-7

4NT shows 10 SlamPoints

5 shows 0 or 3 tophonours

6 shows exactly 1 tophonour , 1 or 2 tophonours and J

 

So opener can construct responder's hand:

Kx

Qxxx

-

AKQJxxx

and easily bid 7

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with my regular p, assuming ideal conditions (ie, me sober, him concentrating):

 

1 - artificial 16+

2NT - suit specific point count ask, starts with by default

3 - 0-3 hcp (denies void)

3 - asks hcp

3 - 4-6 hcp

4 - asks hcp

4 - 7-9 hcp

4NT* - 5 * straight blackwood from here on

5NT - 6

7

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with my regular p, assuming ideal conditions (ie, me sober, him concentrating):

 

1 - artificial 16+

2NT - suit specific point count ask, starts with by default

3 - 0-3 hcp (denies void)

3 - asks hcp

3 - 4-6 hcp

4 - asks hcp

4 - 7-9 hcp

4NT* - 5 * straight blackwood from here on

5NT - 6

7

Hehe i think you wrote this post drunk too:)))

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with my regular p, assuming ideal conditions (ie, me sober, him concentrating):

 

1 - artificial 16+

2NT - suit specific point count ask, starts with by default

3 - 0-3 hcp (denies void)

3 - asks hcp

3 - 4-6 hcp

4 - asks hcp

4 - 7-9 hcp

4NT* - 5 * straight blackwood from here on

5NT - 6

7

How do you know partner has J?

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Dealer: West
Vul: E/W
Scoring: IMP
A6
AKJ
KQ98742
4
K7
QT75
[space]
AKQJT32
 

mike knows weiss better than i do, so he can weigh in if it's wrong

 

2 : 2NT - ogust

3 : 4 - good/good : cab

5 : 5 - A,K or A,Q : cab

6 : 7 - Ax(x) : good luck partner

 

strangely enough, it looks more difficult (to me) if opener starts with 1 (which he might judge to do)

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with my regular p, assuming ideal conditions (ie, me sober, him concentrating):

 

1 - artificial 16+

2NT - suit specific point count ask, starts with by default

3 - 0-3 hcp (denies void)

3 - asks hcp

3 - 4-6 hcp

4 - asks hcp

4 - 7-9 hcp

4NT* - 5  * straight blackwood from here on

5NT - 6

7

How do you know partner has J?

i don't. i never said i'd bid it expecting to make. i don't know where the missing ace is at any point. ideal includes getting disgustingly lucky.

 

and as you witnessed yesterday, if it's my p running this auction we probably play 6NT anyway lol

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If you really want to know...

 

Pass 0-8 or 16+ - 1 9-14 bal. or 16+

2 6+ - 2 relay

3NT (2371) - 4 crash

4NT 2 Aces or - 5 crash

5 2 Kings or - 5NT crash

6 1 Queen - 7 can discard on Q if dont work.

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